The best way to learn is by doing. The Photographer''s Playbook features photography assignments, as well as ideas, stories and anecdotes from many of the world''s most talented photographers and phot
Other Rooms, the first publication to comprehensively feature Jo Ann Callis'' mid-1970s investigation of the nude body and sexuality, is a revelation; the work is provocative, seductive and remarkably
Part of the Aperture Ideas series, a series devoted to the finest critical and creative minds exploring key concepts in photography, this book gathers short essays by the author. While written in an a
In this series, Aperture Foundation works with the world''s top photographers to distill their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on photography--offering the workshop experience in a book.
In this series, Aperture Foundation works with the world''s top photographers to distill their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on photography--offering the workshop experience in a book.
First published in 1968, and now back in print for the first time in ten years, The Bikeriders explores firsthand the stories and personalities of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club. This journal-siz
One of Japan''s foremost twentieth-century photographers, Shomei Tomatsu has created a defining portrait of postwar Japan. Beginning with his meditation on the devastation caused by the atomic bombs i
First published in 1992, Immediate Family has been lauded by critics as one of the great photography books of our time, and among the most influential. Taken against the Arcadian backdrop of her woodl
Josef Koudelka''s "Wall" comprises panoramic landscape photographs made from 2008-2012 in East Jerusalem, Hebron, Ramallah, Bethlehem and in various Israeli settlements along the route of the barrier
This Is Mars offers a previously unseen vision of the red planet. Located somewhere between art and science, the book brings together for the first time a series of panoramic images recently sent back
In 1975, fresh out of art school, Martin Parr moved to the picturesque Yorkshire Pennine mill town of Hebden Bridge. Over a period of five years, he documented the town in photographs, showing in part
"City Stages" offers a paean to the visionary potential of large-format, black-and-white photography as well as to the vibrancy of the cultural landscape at a transitional moment--a moment in which ou
Over the course of nearly five decades, Bernd and Hilla Becher documented almost every type of industrial architecture―from water towers and steel mills to gas tanks and grain silos―in Europe and the
Elephants are among the earth''s most sentient beings. They remember, they experience grief and joy, fear and love. Indeed, as our knowledge of these extraordinary creatures increases, the more they t
Site Specific is a summary of Italian photographer Olivo Barbieri''s ten-year project to record the world''s cities in aerial photographs. On the one hand, the book offers remarkable documentation, by
In "Bending the Frame," Fred Ritchin--Professor of Photography & Imaging at New York University''s Tisch School of the Arts, and author of "After Photography"--examines the complex relations between s
Following on the heels of Martin Parr''s limited-edition, album-style publication Life''s a Beach, Aperture now presents this beach-friendly mini edition. Parr has been photographing the topic of the
In the history of photography in Mexico, portraiture is an important, established tradition, transcending styles, subjects and decades. Mexican Portraits includes more than 350 portraits from more tha
From magazine pages to gallery walls, from advertisements to photojournalism, Color Rush charts the history of color photography in the United States from the moment it became available as a mass medi
Hugely influential among contemporary art photographers, James Welling has created beautiful and uncompromising photographs for more than 35 years. Operating in the hybrid ground between painting, scu
"101 Tragedies" is Enrique Metinides'' selection of the key 101 images from his half-century of photographing crime scenes and accidents in Mexico for local newspapers and the "notas rojas" (or red pa
After nearly a lifetime of traveling and photographing in far-flung places such as Mexico, Ghana, Italy, Scotland and his adoptive country, France, Paul Strand began to concentrate on the stony beauty
Goldin charts the loss of innocence through barrooms and parties on the social periphery of New York''s East Village and through the harrowing worlds of drugs and prostitution. The Ballad of Sexual De
A collection of poetic writings on photography and its practitioners considers such topics as the imagery of dreams, the statements and revelations of key photographers, and the media activities surro
Over the past six years, Stefan Ruiz (born 1966) has gained special access to Mexico''s Televisa studios, known as "The Factory of Dreams," where nearly 50,000 hours-worth of telenovelas (soap operas)
The Dutch photobook is internationally celebrated for its particularly close collaboration between photographer, printer and designer. The current photobook publishing boom in the Netherlands stems fr
A growing appreciation of the photobook has inspired a flood of new scholarship and connoisseurship of the form―few as surprising and inspiring as The Latin American Photobook, the culmination of a fo
Diane Arbus: A Chronology is the closest thing possible to a contemporaneous diary by one of the most daring, influential and controversial artists of the twentieth century. Drawn primarily from Arbus
This long-awaited first monograph presents Brian Ulrich''s decade-long exploration of the shifting tectonic plates that make up American consumerism. The photographer focuses in part on the architectu
Accompanied by behind-the-scenes perspectives by the many photographers, writers, other collaborators whose voices have been a part of "The New York Times Magazine" over the years, presents a portfoli
When Diane Arbus died in 1971 at the age of 48, she was already a significant influence―even something of a legend―for serious photographers, although only a relatively small number of her most import
"Untitled" is the only volume of Diane Arbus'' work devoted exclusively to a single project. The photographs were taken at residences for the mentally retarded between 1969 and 1971, in the last years
"Penelope Umbrico: Photographs" offers a radical reinterpretation of everyday consumer and vernacular images. As the artist describes, she works "within the virtual world of consumer marketing and soc
Vicki Goldberg, one of the leading voices in the field of photography criticism, is well known for her cogent and perceptive writing, which is regularly featured in such national publications as "The
Twenty years ago, before the era of digital cameras, cell phones and the internet, Fred Ritchin outlined many of the ways in which the digital age would transform society. "In Our Own Image "was the f
A sobering visual tribute to the physical and psychological impact of Hurricane Katrina places a particular focus on hurricane-inspired graffiti messages as they were written with various materials by
The Pleasures of Good Photographs is an intellectual and aesthetic excursion led by one of the field''s eminent critics and popular writers. In this new volume of essays, Gerry Badger offers insight i
It takes an artist with the astute eye of Holland''s Jacqueline Hassink to capture the actual oddness of the use of female models to sell cars. Hassink has already been acclaimed for books and exhibit
Street Art, Street Life examines the street as subject matter, venue, and source of inspiration for nearly forty international artists and photographers from the 1950s to the present. "The street" is
Aperture is pleased to present five of the most promising photographers featured on tinyvices.com, the popular online gallery founded by independent curator and photographer Tim Barber. Presented in f
